As soon as I was back in Poe, I went straight to my room. My roommateMartina was already there, sitting at her desk, and apparently doingher homework..."How was the garage?" Martina asked."Good," I responded, holding out my hands which still had a littlegrease beneath the nails. "I earned my paycheck, which is always agood thing, and even had a good conversation with Ringo and Skids aboutsome older model cars."Martina gave me a curious look. "Does this mean that you're in themarket?"I shrugged. Six months after Nancy's death, it was a television programme that first brought Philipstown to their notice. The presenter was sneering about a village where few people had television, where nobody drank, where there was no crime to speak of, and where the children were well behaved. It seemed that the wonderful advantages of modern civilisation, like AIDS and drugs and muggings and graffiti had been denied to this village, and the presenter though they were worse off because of it.Martha. Lib blushed just slightly.Lib said, "We need to get back. We can be here less than an hour after you call. We can bring a doctor or whatever you need. We have a doctor and pilot on standby." I appreciate everything you've done, but I think I'll be alright." We'll see you Friday afternoon."Colonel asked, "Do you need me to preregister you for next semester? I'm going over to sign up for the private pilot course."I said, "Fred came by. He took care of it. Think about having them plan to take you. "Let's see, right now we were planningon having dinner. You're welcome to join us. Next week, I'm going to aswitch-sex party at the country club with your mom; there's a five-hundred dollar prize to the winner and Joy's been helping me train." That's a relief," I sighed loudly. "Not much, but every little bitcounts." What's wrong, afraid we might have watched a movie or listened to asong or two on my PC?" Dad asked, straight faced. I nearly had a heartattack!"Nice work on the frat," Dad.